Spalding Gray
Spalding Gray
Spalding Rockwell Graywas an American actor and writer. He is known for the autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for the theater in the 1980s and 1990s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAutobiographer
Date of Birth5 June 1941
CityProvidence, RI
CountryUnited States of America
chaos
Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.
stuck
To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money.
good-love people laughing
If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.
suicide mother waiting
I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.
girlfriend pain teenage
I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.
sleep climbing class
And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my head, and having a sip of that champagne, and just as I was bringing down and adjusting my Thai purple sleep mask, I had an inkling. I had a flash. I suddenly thought I knew what it was that had killed Marilyn Monroe.
beautiful responsibility waitress
All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.
sex might skiing
Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.
cast jew looks woody
I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don't cast me for my looks - I have a very ironic, existential, crazy Jew in me.
allowed extent limiting tv
Radio allowed me to be a creator, and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing - and to some extent limiting - my vision.
ended guided ivy league onward raised rejected simply wasp
I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really.
decipher pleasure stay yorkers
What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place.
christ coming mom nervous
When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room.